Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/June 2009

= June 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 1


 * 1) Cholesterol Level/Temporal Arteritis
 * 2) Seeing a blue tint for a minute - overexcited photosensitive ganglion cell activity?
 * 3) Young's double slit experiment
 * 4) Technicians on planes
 * 5) Output Formula question
 * 6) Adderall vs. recreational speed
 * 7) Inorganic chemistry
 * 8) Inorganic chemistry
 * 9) human body
 * 10) Does crumpling a piece of paper increase its density?
 * 11) Damaged parrot mandible
 * 12) Sun limb - how to make sense of the direction
 * 13) Turing test
 * 14) Easiest cell to extract DNA from
 * 15) Untreated Cancer
 * 16) Cosmological units

= June 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 2


 * 1) What are the "tubes" on USB and similar cables?
 * 2) Coughing and sneezing while unconscious
 * 3) GPS in plane
 * 4) Evolution denial & genetic engineering
 * 5) Output per man per shift
 * 6) what is the name of the little crab animals that live in the sand that you see when a wave uncovers them
 * 7) Missiles
 * 8) What do flu virus names mean?
 * 9) Organometallic Compound
 * 10) Bees
 * 11) Resonance and Delocalisation
 * 12) Grignard Reagents
 * 13) about  water quality.
 * 14) Cactus Question
 * 15) Does this article sound feasible at all?
 * 16) vapourised alcohol after flaming sambuca?
 * 17) Phosphorus in Evolution
 * 18) overpressure wave calculation
 * 19) global warming potential
 * 20) Ultimate Fate of Mankind

= June 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 3


 * 1) Earth is seriously moving away from sun?
 * 2) MM Experiment
 * 3) Smallest number of neutrons
 * 4) How to cure fungal plant pathogens
 * 5) Understanding another part of the MM experiment
 * 6) Lens and mirror placed in water
 * 7) Sperm Count
 * 8) Three Step Process Of Lethal Injection
 * 9) Pushing a helicopter
 * 10) Monitoring blood glucose levels
 * 11) Energy of a point charge
 * 12) Is it possible to set your own innards on fire?
 * 13) What is VCR doing to my TV signal?
 * 14) Is there any connection?
 * 15) Space inside a Black Hole
 * 16) Applications of invisible light frequencies

= June 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 4


 * 1) NDE recovery, fiction vs real life
 * 2) Penile's Erectiom Angel
 * 3) global warming and human water retention
 * 4) Why are washers so called?
 * 5) Do facial products work?
 * 6) What happens to toxic sewage sludge?
 * 7) Frozen peas float when cooked
 * 8) What happens if I drink five-year-old soda?
 * 9) Capturing a warm bath's heat
 * 10) gravitational equations
 * 11) DO  GRAVITATIONAL  ENERGY  OF EARTH  REDUCE  BY  TIME?
 * 12) problem of race
 * 13) Labour and multiple births
 * 14) helium balloon
 * 15) Falling for infinitly long.
 * 16) A structural designation
 * 17) Understand weak interaction and beta decay

= June 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 5


 * 1) Distribution of stellar classes
 * 2) Q about lovebirds
 * 3) largest possible Black Hole
 * 4) zinc cloride
 * 5) Lame flight data recorders
 * 6) Radiocarbon and DNA evidence on Voynich Manuscript
 * 7) Electrical power usage of computer
 * 8) Satellite photos of London from today (5th June 2009)
 * 9) Is it really true that Planes which cruise at high altitude get hit by lightning?
 * 10) Is 2 + 2 = 4 in other universes
 * 11) Peacock and Peahen
 * 12) Egg protein
 * 13) exit polls
 * 14) work

= June 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 6


 * 1) Jellyfish as pets.
 * 2) Physical strength requirements of Formula 1
 * 3) Higgs boson
 * 4) Electrical arc
 * 5) Unknown garden plants for identification
 * 6) what kinds of companies use corporate astrologers?
 * 7) The Mouse vs. Elephant Effect
 * 8) what would convince you of my ability to remote view?

= June 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 7


 * 1) bound photons
 * 2) Many-worlds Question
 * 3) Speeding up formal education
 * 4) Magnetic force based "black holes"
 * 5) Muscles + Oxygen = Energy
 * 6) Intelligence as absence of stupidity
 * 7) Heat death, temperature and entropy
 * 8) Wet matches
 * 9) Human blood
 * 10) Surgical memento
 * 11) Inertia on the bus(non-technical explanation preferred)
 * 12) Twins conceived on successive months
 * 13) Submersed in Water
 * 14) The need to urinate
 * 15) electrical generator

= June 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 8


 * 1) Plant without soil
 * 2) Alternative earphones with remote and microphone for iPod touch
 * 3) Which vegetable oil is most healthy for vegetarians?
 * 4) Does cooking linseed make its oil accessable?
 * 5) Death by hypodermic to the heart?
 * 6) heat into electricity
 * 7) How far do iron ore Lake Freighters travel from Minnesota or Northern Michigan, through the Soo Locks & past
 * 8) porcupines
 * 9) Name of those polystyrene packing forms?
 * 10) All matter Black hole

= June 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 9


 * 1) Strange photometer problems
 * 2) Plant species identification??
 * 3) dynamics
 * 4) Surprising BBC statement about type 2 diabetes
 * 5) Reduction Potential in Pourbaix Diagrams
 * 6) Look-and-say sequence (now asked at WP:RDMA)
 * 7) Dead arm while sleeping
 * 8) Logic Gate Amplifiers.
 * 9) Help Me Preparing My Work
 * 10) Internet over radio (not internet radio)
 * 11) endangered animals
 * 12) Speed of light...
 * 13) Limit to Acceleration?
 * 14) How to safely hang a suspended sign like this one

= June 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 10


 * 1) Long term stability
 * 2) Quantum physics paradox
 * 3) Telecommunication in ships
 * 4) Head on crash?
 * 5) Bcf v Bcfe
 * 6) geographical location 0°,0°
 * 7) Melting point of granite and silica
 * 8) DivX, avi, mp4, Xvid
 * 9) Explosive friction
 * 10) A problem of Doppler effect
 * 11) calculating gas viscosity
 * 12) Suspend a weight between two poles - how strong must the cable and poles be?
 * 13) Matter and antimatter would be a subset of what?
 * 14) Relativity, exponential curves, infinity of time(ish)
 * 15) Top Speed
 * 16) Bacterial Infections
 * 17) Grandma's cold treatment

= June 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 11


 * 1) Balloon on bus accelerating forward.
 * 2) Y Chromosome
 * 3) How can you make black through mixing colors?
 * 4) Is this person mentally challenged?

= June 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 12


 * 1) Cancer in Whales
 * 2) Tidally lock
 * 3) Question about polish people
 * 4) tennis
 * 5) Adolescent development
 * 6) Cutting Limes
 * 7) warm "blooded" plants

= June 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 13


 * 1) What is this bug?
 * 2) Carnivoran trait
 * 3) Walking dinosaurs
 * 4) How hot is boiling water?
 * 5) Suicide Question
 * 6) Cancer rates in mammal species including humans
 * 7) Air hunger / winded when stuck in lungs
 * 8) What is the nature of the big bang?
 * 9) Running a Race
 * 10) about death

= June 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 14


 * 1) Betalgeuse + supernova
 * 2) Artificial breeding to save endangered species
 * 3) Critical velocities for Lockheed Electra 10-E?
 * 4) Weed seeds and compost
 * 5) Volume of all the water on earth
 * 6) Is an unicellular organism a tautology?
 * 7) bioplastics
 * 8) Metric expansion of space
 * 9) Is it possible to deliberately lose weight without feeling hungry?
 * 10) How amount of UV in sunlight differs between time of day, season, and various places in north or south Britain
 * 11) Thermodynamics chemistry
 * 12) Household science-themed activities for 18-26 year olds
 * 13) Falling from a motorcycle
 * 14) Curvature of Space

= June 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 15


 * 1) natural refraction of sound?
 * 2) Should I turn on the lights at night when using my computer?
 * 3) supplier for polyvinyl alcohol & dextrin adhesive
 * 4) QUANTUM MECHANICS -AS POPULAR SCIENCE
 * 5) Computer Keyboard
 * 6) scientists own writings
 * 7) Number of Synapses in Newborns
 * 8) Weird Street Drug
 * 9) Sun's gravity on Mercury vs Pluto
 * 10) Recoil Upward Motion - Firearms
 * 11) question about stability of ecamsule
 * 12) post-splenectomy immunication schedule
 * 13) How do I give a ferret an orgasm?
 * 14) parasitic worms
 * 15) Smoked cylinder
 * 16) immovable object and irresistable force - revisited

= June 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 16


 * 1) centripetal acceleration
 * 2) Humans as Krikkets
 * 3) chemical potetial
 * 4) Insect identification?
 * 5) Aches after exercise
 * 6) What is RVS Steel?
 * 7) Can the Lotus position be bad for your knees?
 * 8) Why are damselflies bright blue?
 * 9) Word, botany
 * 10) When is the Pleiades meteor shower this year?

= June 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 17


 * 1) Does TeVeS or STVG explain LIGO?
 * 2) What is the resonant frequency of fingertips? Is it in ultrasound?
 * 3) Why does so little of the energy become sound when objects strike each other?
 * 4) Maximum possible impact of one person
 * 5) Is telepathy possible through technology? What is this called?
 * 6) Oils and fluids
 * 7) Determining the Credibility of Research Journals
 * 8) Quarternary Structure
 * 9) why do hurricanes slow down?
 * 10) Sticky situation
 * 11) human weight
 * 12) Prediction market and sport betting
 * 13) White dwarf stars

= June 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 18


 * 1) Question on the Scientific Method
 * 2) surface tension
 * 3) Battery. 2.3Ah, 3.3V. How many Watt-hours it could hold?
 * 4) Points  on a plate ...no idea????
 * 5) Hepatic filtering
 * 6) Lightning & thunder
 * 7) Earth sized cyclotron/rail-gun for human relativistic stasis?
 * 8) mechanical device
 * 9) Need additional scientific quotes
 * 10) Fan Displacement
 * 11) Examples of Thermodynamic Laws
 * 12) why is carbamic acid unstable?
 * 13) Solar radiation

= June 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 19


 * 1) Coefficient of thermal expansion...
 * 2) remedy or something else?
 * 3) Sustainability
 * 4) On Hawaii
 * 5) Big Bang
 * 6) Nudibranch (or something)
 * 7) ADD and stimulants
 * 8) kineto-baric?? what is this?
 * 9) Black rope has musty mildew smell. How to clean?
 * 10) Fishing in Ontario lake
 * 11) Question on J.J. Sakurai's notation

= June 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 20


 * 1) Consistancy and Acceleration.
 * 2) Which wikiproject would best encompass an Electrical Pollution article.
 * 3) Getting cancer and our destiny
 * 4) mecca
 * 5) niper-2009
 * 6) Sigfigs
 * 7) How big a population is needed to sustain the current technological society?
 * 8) Heating canned goods directly
 * 9) "Homeopathic"?

= June 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 21


 * 1) Cockatoos: are they more likely than other birds to go crazy?
 * 2) "Enamel strengthening" toothpaste
 * 3) "Waveguide" ultrasonic toothbrushes
 * 4) Range data for Lockheed Electra 10-E?
 * 5) Four towers around rocket gantry
 * 6) should we scale down the internet?
 * 7) NOTHING
 * 8) Pakistan
 * 9) Race and brain size/characteristics.
 * 10) Brain size/exercise
 * 11) Low doses of radiation protecting against cancer?
 * 12) Phone sound
 * 13) Bacteria-based stain remover

= June 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 22


 * 1) Binary stars orbiting a planet
 * 2) horsepower and cc
 * 3) Is time finite or infinite?
 * 4) Inverted vertical tube manometer
 * 5) Beam of light
 * 6) Help with project
 * 7) Wisdom Tooth Extraction After effects
 * 8) Reaching the lowest possible temperature
 * 9) Telescope on the moon
 * 10) Apparent contradiction?
 * 11) Rain in the East Coast, USA
 * 12) Farthest blue-shifted object?
 * 13) Colours of night sky objects?
 * 14) Mold on mushrooms
 * 15) chicken eggs
 * 16) Eradicated bacteria on a space station
 * 17) star diameter
 * 18) Small stars/planets
 * 19) Talk:Liquid crystal display
 * 20) Special relativity and Emission theory

= June 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 23


 * 1) BDNF and Nuclear Accumbens
 * 2) iPhone Oleophobic coating
 * 3) Driving upside down in a tunnel
 * 4) yawning + tone
 * 5) office temperature requirements.
 * 6) In Essence is a Polar Shift of Magnetic poles - capable of being caused by Man through a Ultra-low Resonant Frequency?
 * 7) Soft drink and  obesity
 * 8) Toe-nails
 * 9) Landing on the Moon
 * 10) Venus Flytrap care
 * 11) Height and Growth
 * 12) What is the mechanism for air leaking from car tyres?

= June 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 24


 * 1) basements
 * 2) Transformer
 * 3) This Image
 * 4) Increasing oxygen on Mars
 * 5) What is this wood coloured Insect called?
 * 6) Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Moon
 * 7) Do Genetically Modified Crops Have Larger Yields?
 * 8) negative mass in general relativity
 * 9) Does alcohol kill germs? Does silver?
 * 10) Sabre wolf
 * 11) General scientific magazines - like Science and Nature
 * 12) Another Venus Flytrap question
 * 13) Converting Contour Maps to Height-Map Data
 * 14) Uranus dark spot
 * 15) Alanine
 * 16) Rice keeps sticking to non-stick cooker.
 * 17) Happiness and children

= June 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 25


 * 1) inverse metal
 * 2) evolution books
 * 3) gravitational intensity of a moving body
 * 4) matlab how to
 * 5) how to optimize
 * 6) Gasoline and water
 * 7) Body hair and odor - Vestigial?
 * 8) Dew point in UK
 * 9) Upcoming Malaysian Tsunami
 * 10) half-filled and full-filled shells
 * 11) Why can slower cars turn in tighter circles?
 * 12) How to produce protein homology schematics as seen in scientific journals?
 * 13) How does the compass in the iPhone work?
 * 14) Why do some globe willow trees have what appear to be blossoms?
 * 15) Grow Your Own
 * 16) Disciplining my kitten
 * 17) Earth's core as Time Keeper

= June 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 26


 * 1) Homeopathic Medicine vs Allopathic Medicine
 * 2) Total number of medical articles
 * 3) Solar eclipse
 * 4) spring with variable controllable stiffness ?
 * 5) Thymol blindness?
 * 6) Rising cream
 * 7) acute liver failure
 * 8) Consistent pulsing in ear.
 * 9) Debye-Huckel lamitting law
 * 10) placebo effect
 * 11) polydactylism

= June 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 27


 * 1) Specifying a reference for US City in Infobox Settlement
 * 2) Question about social group dynamics
 * 3) Bamboo Growth
 * 4) Broken Blood Vessel in the back of the Eye
 * 5) Literature, cellular suicide, and spaceflight
 * 6) fajan's rule
 * 7) Impact of science
 * 8) Purpose of the Human Beard
 * 9) Osteopathic Medicine vs Allopathic Medicine
 * 10) What is the mass of the Earth's crust?
 * 11) Car trunk
 * 12) Wave function collapse

= June 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 28


 * 1) Power Press
 * 2) What in the world is this creature?
 * 3) Virtual Gravity
 * 4) UFOs in my bathroom
 * 5) Digital cameras - more pixels useless due to camera shake?
 * 6) Why do some people appear to age less than others?
 * 7) Halogen
 * 8) Toyota High Performance Engines.
 * 9) Need help identifying an animal skull from northern Alberta
 * 10) Mini hang glider
 * 11) Evolution of desperation
 * 12) Fresh milk
 * 13) Calories in a pound of fat
 * 14) Tiredness after a meal
 * 15) Can anybody identify this beetle?
 * 16) Can a chimpanzee really commit suicide?
 * 17) Naturism
 * 18) Rechargeable batteries with no shelf life?

= June 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 29


 * 1) God Delusion question: Infinite regress of multiverses
 * 2) Seashells (Clam/Giant Clam) that have morphed
 * 3) Effects of higher gravity
 * 4) Masturbation
 * 5) Esterification Mechanism
 * 6) Cities on the Moon
 * 7) wind turbine numbers
 * 8) Ethanol molecule structure
 * 9) Punching completely through someone

= June 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 30


 * 1) How to estimate calories required daily?
 * 2) simulating finger prints
 * 3) It really Works !!!
 * 4) thermodynamics equilibrium constant
 * 5) Hypotension
 * 6) Nitrogen enhanced gasoline
 * 7) Chai - laxative qualities?
 * 8) Strange plant in northeast Kansas.
 * 9) Diffraction of sound over a wall
 * 10) Blue giant
 * 11) Antartica shifting away from South Pole?